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May The Source Be With You! Articles about Open Source and Free Software as a philosophy, and its application to software development and project management.

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UPDATED APRIL 8, 2020

To keep this tag clean and meaningful, please ensure your post fits into at least one of the following categories:

Organizing, managing, running, or working in an Open Source project.
Open Source philosophy, licensing, and/or practical and legal topics thereof.
Advocacy and adoption of Open Source philosophy.

DO NOT use this tag if you are simply using technologies which happen to be open source.

You should NOT use this tag for any of the following:

Promoting open source projects, such as feature lists or announcements. (Use #news or Listings.)
Contributor requests. (Use #contributorswanted or Listings.)
Tutorials/articles that happen to use an open source tool. (Use appropriate technology tags.)
Showing off something you've built that happens to be open source. (Use the #showdev tag.)
Sharing lists of open source projects. (Use #githunt or the appropriate technology tags.)

Projects must comply with the Open Source Definition (see below) to legally use the term "open source".

As all "Free Software" officially complies with the standards of Open Source anyway, this tag covers both (collectively, FOSS).

about #opensource

Open Source is so much more than "you can read the code". It is formally defined by the Open Source Initiative.

"Open Source" should not be confused with the similar Free Software, which is defined by the Free Software Foundation. Generally, all Free Software is also Open Source, and the two camps often cooperate; however, the concepts are distinct! (The tags are merged here on DEV.to for simplicity, however.)

Open Source Hardware is defined and overseen by the Open Source Hardware Assocation

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GDS K S

Mar 9

I Got Tired of Hunting for SVG Logos. So I Open-Sourced 4,000 of Them

#opensource #webdev #javascript #react

4 min read

Mar 20

Tuning Podman on macOS to Match OrbStack Performance

#containers #opensource #performance #tooling

3 min read

jreeeedd

Mar 13

O que é o schepta e que problema ele resolve

#webdev #opensource #json #ai

2 min read

Mar 8

I Built an Open-Source CLI to Compare LLM API Costs in Your Terminal (npx, Zero Install)

#ai #cli #opensource #node

3 min read

Dmytro Huz

Mar 9

I Built ac-trace to Check What Tests Actually Protect

#testing #ai #development #opensource

4 min read

J

Mar 9

Meet StatlerScore, a Credit Score for your Cloud

#cloud #opensource #aws #security

5 min read

Mar 8

Outline vs Other Notion Alternatives: Compared

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

3 min read

Mar 8

The Developer Who Burned $1,500 in One Day on Cursor Without Knowing It

#opensource #webdev #ai

2 min read

Mar 9

devtun: Public HTTPS URLs for Local Docker Containers

#technology #opensource #webdev

4 min read

Mar 8

ayat saadati — Complete Guide

#programming #tutorial #opensource #webdev

6 min read

slucerodev

Apr 11

Your AI Agent Just Did Something. Can You Prove What It Was?

#python #ai #security #opensource

3 min read

VeritasChain Standards Organization (VSO)

Mar 9

AIMomentz CAP-SRP: How We Built a Cryptographic Audit Trail for AI Image Refusals in ~8,000 Lines of PHP

#ai #php #security #opensource

15 min read

Mar 8

Outline vs Notion: Self-Hosted Alternative

#selfhosted #opensource #homelab #linux

5 min read

Naia

Mar 8

AI-Native Open Source — Open Source Built with AI

#naiaos #opensource #ainative #vibecoding

7 min read

André N. Darcie

Mar 8

Qwen3.5 rodando localmente: super rápido e com ótima qualidade

#ai #llm #opensource #performance

2 min read

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